Checkrow-wire support



i Patented lune "i9, i923..

AUBREY Ill'. SCHIEBERL, OF FIONDVILLE, lv'SSOUB/IQ CHECKROW-WIRE SUPPORT.

Application filed June 20, 1922. lerial No. 569,669.

T all whom t may concern:

Be it known that I, AUDREY M. SoHIEBEnL, a citizen of the United States, residing at Moundville, in the county of Vernon and State of Missouri, have invented new and useful improvements in Gheckrow-l/V ire Supports, of which the following is a specifil cation. v

ln carrying out the present invention it` is my purpose to provide a check row wire support whereby the wire for operating the planter may be properly anchored at both ends and whereby the wire may be automatically thrown by the planter from one position to the other, so that after the planter is operated to plant o-nelrow, 1t may be operated on its return to its init-iai starting position to plant a parallel row, the coning within the scope of the appended claim.

In the accompanying drawings:

Figure 1 is a top plan view of my improved support.

Figure 2 is an edge elevation of the same.

Figure 3 isa perspective view of one of the anchor members.

Figure l is an enlarged fragmentary sectional View therethrough.

Referring now to the drawings in detail, 1 1 designate the anchor members, each comprising a single length of wire having one end sharpened to provide a penetrating point 2 adapted to penetrate the earth and the other end formed to provide a head 3. Centrally of its ends the wire is bent upon itself to provide a bearing loop These anchor members aredriven into lthe ground at each end of the eld to be planted between two rows. Arter'the members 1 are driven into the ground the loops 41 are placed in alinement with each other, as shown in Figure 2, and through these alining loops is passed a rod 5. Arranged at right angles to the rod 5 at one end thereof is a bar 6 formed with an opening 7 through which the adjacent end 0i' the rod 5 passes, as clearly illustrated in Figure of the drawings.' 0n opposite sides of the bar 6 the rod 5 is equipped with washers 8, and passed through the rod 5 are Cotter pins 9 that act to hold the rod 5 to the bar 6. y y Connected to the bar 6 adjacenttov the other end thereof is an eye bolt 10, andl con-. nected to the eye bolt 10 is one end of a guy wire 11, the other end of which is suitably secured to the end of the r-od 5 remote from` the bar 6, as clearly shownin Figure 1 of the drawings. Thus a substantial structure is provided. The bar 6 adjacent to the eye bolt 1() is formed with an opening 13, and secured within this opening 13 is a shank of a hook 14. My improved check row lwire supports are arranged at the ends of the field and extending from one hook 11i to the other is a check wire 16 constructed usual to operate the planting mechanism of the ,i

row wire support the planting mechanism is detached from the `check wire, and the planter moved around the support to the other row, this support being then swung over to the other row toI be planted. The planter is now moved along to plant the other row and travels toward the remote bar 6, the wire 16 assuming a angular position, between the supports and when the planter p reaches thatportion of the wire 16 which is under tension between the planter and the bar 6, then the bar and its accompanying' parts are also lsv'vung from the full line'position in Figure 6 to the dottedline position, i

claim and without departing from the spirit of my invention. l

tions may be made within thescope of the 110,

- Having thus described the invention, what is claimed as new, is

In av support forcheck row wires comprising pairs of spacedk anchor members at op- 5 posite ends of a field, a, rodjournaied within eyes formed in each pair of anchor members,Y 'r a bei'v rigidly connected to one end `*of the rods and arranged at right angles thereto. hooks in the free ends of each ber adapted for securing a, checking wire between said 10 bars and e guy Wire between the free ends of v each bar and rod.

In testimony whereof I iHX my signature. c

AUBREY M. SCHIEBERL. 

